The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology)

Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 7/26/2018
EAN 9781107180437, ISBN10: 1107180430

Hardcover, 822 pages, 25.1 x 18.4 x 4.1 cm
Language: English

The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression presents the current state of knowledge related to the study of violent behaviors and aggression. An important extension of the first Handbook published ten years ago, the second edition maintains a distinctly cross-disciplinary focus by representing the newest scholarship and insights from behavior genetics, cross-cultural comparative psychology/criminology, evolutionary psychology, criminal justice, criminology, human development, molecular genetics, neurosciences, psychology, prevention and intervention sciences, psychiatry, psychopharmacology, public health, and sociology. The Handbook is divided into introductory and overview chapters on the study of violent behavior and aggression, followed by chapters on biosocial bases, individual and interpersonal factors, contextual factors, and prevention and intervention work and policy implications. It is an essential resource for researchers, scholars, and graduate students across social and behavioral science disciplines interested in the etiology, intervention, and prevention of violent behavior and aggression.

Part I. Introduction and Overview
1. Origins of violent behavior over the life span
2. Longitudinal study of personality and social development
insights about aggression after 5 decades
3. A life course model for the development of intimate partner violence
4. The dark violence hybrid
the cross-cultural validation of an integrative model
Part II. Biosocial Foundations of Violence and Aggression
5. The behavioral genetics of aggression and violent behaviour
6. Neuroimaging evidence of violence and aggression
7. Biosocial bases of aggression and antisocial behavior; 8. The Neuropsychology of violence; 9. The interaction of nature and nurture in antisocial behavior; 10. The neurobiology of bullying victimization
11. Molecular genetics of aggression and violent crime
12. Biosocial foundations of drug abuse and violent delinquency; 13. Personality and aggression
a general trait perspective
Part III. Individual and Interpersonal Factors for Violence and Aggression
14. Applying empirically-based trait models to an understanding of personality and violence
15. Social-cognitive processes in the development of antisocial and violent behavior
16
Violent juvenile offenders
a psychiatric and mental health perspective
17. Self-control theory and criminal violence; 18. Peers and aggression
from description to prevention; 19. Developmental processes of resilience and risk for aggression and conduct problems
20. Child abuse and neglect
21. The role of gender in violent and aggressive behaviors; 22. Lessons learned
serial sex offenders identified from backlogged sexual assault kits (SAKs); 23. Research on social structure and cross-national homicide rates; 24. Preventing violent crimes by reducing wrongful convictions; 25. Strain theory and violent behavior
26. On cumulative childhood traumatic exposure and violence/aggression
the implications of adverse childhood experiences (ACE)
Part IV. Contextual Factors for Violence and Aggression
27. Youth gangs and violent behavior; 28. Social networks and violence; 29
The contagion of violence; 30. School violence; 31. Violence and culture in the United States; 32. Violence prevention in a global context
progress and priorities for moving forward; 33. Terrorism as a form of violence
34. Psychopharmacology of violence
35. Individual, family, neighborhood and regional poverty/socioeconomic status and exposure to violence in the lives of children and adolescents
considering the Global North and South
36. Firearms and violence; Part V. Looking toward the Future
37. The interrelationship of self-control and violent behavior
pathways and policies; 38. The new frontier
leveraging innovative technologies to prevent bullying
39. Neural substrates of youth and adult antisocial behavior; 40. Research designs and methods for evaluating and refining interventions for youth violence prevention; 41. New directions in research on violence
bridging science, practice, and policy.